Title
as-PSOCT: Volumetric microscopic imaging of human brain architecture and connectivity.
Abstract
Polarization sensitive optical coherence tomography (PSOCT) with serial sectioning has enabled the investigation of 3D structures in mouse and human brain tissue samples. By using intrinsic optical properties of back-scattering and birefringence, PSOCT reliably images cytoarchitecture, myeloarchitecture and fiber orientations. In this study, we developed a fully automatic serial sectioning polarization sensitive optical coherence tomography (as-PSOCT) system to enable volumetric reconstruction of human brain samples with unprecedented sample size and resolution. The 3.5 μm in-plane resolution and 50 μm through-plane voxel size allow inspection of cortical layers that are a single-cell in width, as well as small crossing fibers. We show the abilities of as-PSOCT in quantifying layer thicknesses of the cerebellar cortex and creating microscopic tractography of intricate fiber networks in the subcortical nuclei and internal capsule regions, all based on volumetric reconstructions. as-PSOCT provides a viable tool for studying quantitative cytoarchitecture and myeloarchitecture and mapping connectivity with microscopic resolution in the human brain.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.10.012
NeuroImage
Field
DocType
Volume
Voxel,Biomedical engineering,Optical coherence tomography,Cognitive psychology,Cytoarchitecture,Artificial intelligence,Neuroimaging,Microscopic imaging,Computer vision,Psychology,Birefringence,Human brain,Tractography
Journal
165
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1053-8119
4
0.48
References 
Authors
13
14
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hui Wang129185.17
Caroline Magnain2322.19
Ruo-Peng Wang31087.19
Jay Dubb4201.85
Ani Varjabedian540.48
Lee S. Tirrell640.48
Allison Stevens71609.42
Jean C. Augustinack81288.39
Ender Konukoglu9142984.91
Iman Aganj1019518.93
Matthew P. Frosch11764.39
Jeremy D. Schmahmann1216110.17
Fischl Bruce134131219.39
David A. Boas1466372.57